Truth, Language, and History

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-823756-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In four groups of essays, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? Including a new introduction by his widow, Marcia Cavell, this volume completes Donald Davidson's colossal intellectual legacy.

Contents

Marcia Cavell: Introduction
Truth
1 Truth Rehabilitated (1997)
2 The Folly of Trying to Define Truth (1996)
3 Method and Metaphysics (1993)
4 Meaning, Truth, and Evidence (1990)
5 Pursuit of the Concept of Truth (1995)
6 What is Quine's View of Truth? (1994)
Language
7 A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1986)
8 The Social Aspect of Language (1994)
9 Seeing Through Language (1997)
10 James Joyce and Humpty Dumpty (1989)
11 The Third Man (1992)
12 Locating Literary Language (1993)
Anomalous Monism
13 Thinking Causes (1993)
14 Laws and Cause (1995)
Historical Thoughts
15 Plato's Philosopher (1985)
16 The Socratic Concept of Truth (1992)
17 Dialectic and Dialogue (1994)
18 Gadamer and Plato's Philebus (1997)
19 Aristotle's Action (2001)
20 Spinoza's Causal Theory of the Affects (1993)
Appendix: Replies to Rorty, Stroud, McDowell, and Pereda (1998)

Zielgruppe

All philosophers, psychologists and linguists interested in philosophy, anyone else interested in cutting-edge work on knowledge, mind, and language

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Truth

- 1: Truth Rehabilitated (1997)

- 2: The Folly of Trying to Define Truth (1996)

- 3: Method and Metaphysics (1993)

- 4: Meaning, Truth, and Evidence (1990)

- 5: Pursuit of the Concept of Truth (1995)

- 6: What is Quine's View of Truth? (1994)

- Language

- 7: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1986)

- 8: The Social Aspect of Language (1994)

- 9: Seeing Through Language (1997)

- 10: James Joyce and Humpty Dumpty (1989)

- 11: The Third Man (1992)

- 12: Locating Literary Language (1993)

- Anomalous Monism

- 13: Thinking Causes (1993)

- 14: Laws and Cause (1995)

- Historical Thoughts

- 15: Plato's Philosopher (1985)

- 16: The Socratic Concept of Truth (1992)

- 17: Dialectic and Dialogue (1994)

- 18: Gadamer and Plato's Philebus (1997)

- 19: Aristotle's Action (2001)

- 20: Spinoza's Causal Theory of the Affects (1993)

- Appendix: Replies to Rorty, Stroud, McDowell, and Pereda (1998)

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Davidson, (1917-2003) formerly Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley